MANCHESTER — After helping restore power to New York City residents, a crew of Public Service of New Hampshire workers returned Sunday to New Hampshire.

The PSNH staff members performed work on underground power distribution lines in the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens over the past week. Numerous power outages had occurred there recently as a result of damage caused by salt used to treat roads and sidewalks.

The workers were part of a larger contingent from PSNH’s parent corporation, Northeast Utilities, including workers from NSTAR, Connecticut Light and Power and Western Massachusetts Electric Company.

That type of deployment is part of a utility mutual aid effort that has, in the past, benefited the Granite State, including the staging of hundreds of NU crews this past December in anticipation of an ice storm. PSNH crews have also been deployed to aid restoration efforts — recently to Cape Cod and to Maine, and in recent years to Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania.

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